~~~Lucas POV~~~
As soon as I left my mate, my mood deteriorated very quickly.
Right as I arrived to the dungeons, my senses picked up. My brother Jasper was waiting for me.
"They didn't say anything?" I ask.
"No, they only want to speak to you." He says.
I growl, walking into the dungeons.
"So be it." I say.
When I walk up to cell holding the rouges, I am greeted by the most hideous scrawny men I've ever seen.
How do they even shift?
"Alpha Lucas came to see us, Brendan." One of them says to the other.
The other one faces me.
"Wow, he is real." He says.
I growl, opening their cell and walking inside.
"This is either going to be easy or hard. You will tell me what you're doing on my land and then I will kill you fast, or I will torture you until you tell me. Then I'll let you bleed out, in which you will still ultimately die. Take your pick." I say.
They both look at one another and smile.
"We didn't come to just cross your territory." One of them says.
"Then why are you here?" I ask.
"Our leader wants a female." He says simply.
"You want to abduct a female from my pack? Don't you guys have women of your own?" I growl.
"Yes, but he wants a certain female." He states.
"Go on." I say.
The both shake their heads.
I grab a silver blade and slice a deep cut down both of their arms.
"Tell me m, or there's going to be so much more." I say.
"We cannot." One of them says.
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One hour later
"Are you guys ready to talk now?" I ask, looking at their bloodied battered bodies.
I kick one of them in the stomach.
"You-."
"What? I cannot hear you!" I say kicking him again.
"Your female." He says.
I growl. "What do you mean, my female?" I ask.
"Rumor has it, you have found your mate, Alpha Lucas." He spits, blood flying from his mouth.
"She's a Lycan female, it's been thousands of years since there has been a Lycan female. Does your little mate know how special she is? Or have you not told her? He asks, smirking at me.
"How do you know any of this?" I growl.
"Rumors spread like wildfire, Alpha Lucas. Although, we didn't know she was a Lycan until we saw that mark on your neck. Our Alpha will be very pleased to hear that knowledge." He says, chuckling.
"Who is your Alpha?" I shout.
"No one you would know. I'm sure you will meet him soon enough. He will come for what is his." He chuckles again.
I throw him against the wall.
"How dare you threaten my mate. She is mine." I growl.
I snap his neck and throw him to the ground.
"Now you, I'll ask this one last time. What does your leader want?" I ask the other rogue.
"You already know. What leader wouldn't want a Lycan female? Especially if she is your mate. If he can get your female, he surely can win over your pack." He says.
I growl.
"Where is his pack?" I ask.
"We are not a real pack." He states.
"Well then, where the hell is he?" I growl.
"I don't know." He says.
I pick him up and shove him against the wall. Grabbing his arm I snap it backwards, breaking it. He screams.
"I won't kill you then. You'll stay here alive until you tell me what I need to know and trust me, you will be begging for me to end your life long before then." I tell him.
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~~~Ophelia's POV~~~
I sit on the kitchen counter with Igrette scooping out th leftover cookie dough with a spoon when Lucas storms through the room towards me.
He picks me up, causing me to gasp in surprise.
"Lucas?! What is going on?" I ask.
He charges up the stairs, not answering me. He opens the bedroom door and storms in, slamming the door behind us.
He throws me into the bed and climbs over me, panting heavy. He slams his mouth onto mine.
"Mine." He growls.
I kiss him back, harder, while gripping the front of his shirt and rip it open, quickly running my hands down his chest.
I warp my arms around him and kissing him deeply, basking in his familiar warmth and touch, but something isn't right. His body is rigid and I feel scared?
No, I don't feel scared. He does.
I pull away. "Lucas, what's going on?" I ask.
He leans down and kisses his mark on my neck, wrapping me tighter in his arms.
"Lucas." I say pushing him away.
He goes to kiss me, but I press my hand to his mouth.
"Look in my eyes, Lucas. Come back to me. What's wrong?" I ask.
His eyes show pure conflict.
I caress his face. "Love." I say looking at him, concerned. "What's wrong?"
His chest rises up and down fast.
"Someone wants to take you from me." He croaks, shaking in rage.
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"The rouges we caught. Their leader wants to take you. He want to take what's mine." He growls.
My breath shakes.
"Who? Why? How does anyone know who I am? I'm not anyone important." I say.
He shakes his head
"That's the thing, you are as important as it gets. You have no idea what a treasure you are." He says.
I look at him, my eyebrows furrowed.
"How?" I ask.
He shakes his head.
"The last female Lycans existed before my existence. You are the only one I have ever met." He says.
"Okay, so I'm a Lycan. My only difference from the other she-wolves is I'm stronger, faster and I can mark you?" I ask
"There is so much more to it than that." He says
I push his chest off of me and take a deep breath.
"Look at me Lucas. I haven't changed." I say.
He shakes his head.
"You are changing, you just haven't noticed yet, Lia." He says.
I look at him confused.
"Your body has toned, your physically stronger. It looks like you grow more beautiful everyday, if that's even possible. The stronger the bond grows the more you will start to see the changes." He continues.
"You might be able to connect to the whole pack just as I can or grow stronger in command." He says
"So, some other male wants to take me because I'm stronger and faster?" I ask.
"No, he wants to take you because you're beautiful, rare and special. Our children will be pure Lycan. We became Lycans because one of our parents has the fene that skipped over thousands of ancestors but landed on us. Our children will be absolutely extraordinary. Strong, fast, powerful. This pack will flourish more than ever before with them. The reason he wants to take you is because you are mine and you are everything to me. My pack will fall, and my reign will be over. He wants status. He wants power but more importantly he wants you because he thinks that you are my weakness, but you are anything but that. You are my strength." He says
"He won't get to us, Lucas. I'm safe, you're safe, this pack is safe. Like you said, our bond grows stronger everyday. There is nothing or no one on this earth who could tear us apart." I tell him
He leans over and wraps his arms around me.
"I don't want you leaving this house without me or one of my brothers. Now until I find this asshole and put his head on a spike to display in our front yard.
Ok....
I roll us over so I'm on top of him, straddling his waist and press my lips to his.
"I'm not going anywhere. I'm yours. I'm right here. We're going to figure this out." I say leaning for forehead against his.
I take his hand and run it over my mark.
"Every part of me belongs to you. No matter what." I tell him.
His eyes glazed over with adoration as he pulls me into him, embracing me.